I'm the village idiot, I don't have anything to do with this pathetic little opera, I just felt like passing through!
Day 7 Had an interesting discussion with one of the guys in my unit this morning. It kind of wandered across a pretty good range of topics. He’s a police officer in Texas. Nice guy. This deployment has helped him to decide that he will leave the Navy Reserves. He does not want to be … Read more
Yesterday was a bad day. Got in trouble twice for things that were either not my fault or largely out of my control. Some times the military sucks. I wonder how long it takes before you become accustom to the pain of being separated from your family? I heard again from Mr. Knief. He sent … Read more
Day 5 There are a lot of units passing through here on their way home or on their way north. I’ve had the opportunity to meet a number of Army service members from a lot of different units. 4th ID, 149th Maintaince, the 3rd some thing or other. The names and numbers of all these … Read more
Charles Knief replied to my blog entry that talked about him. Everyone should now run over to Amazon.com and buy one of his books to show my gratitude. Thank you Mr. Knief. You made my day. Aloha
Day 5 First, sorry for missing a day. I will try to keep that to a minimum. Part of the problem is the very slow network speeds that we have during the day. I need to start writing my blog entries off line and up loading them. Stood my first watch out here today. The … Read more
Day 3 The rest of the unit arrived last night. I ended up working until about 0100 helping them get their bags off the truck and into the tents where we’ll be living for the next three weeks. There were lots of people so there were lots of bags. We spent about an hour just … Read more
Day 2 I spent the day checking out Camp Spearhead. Not a bad place really. I guess the air quality gets pretty bad some times. Summers hotter than anything I’ve ever experienced before. But the basic accommodations seem OK. Food is good, living quarters are endurable which is more than can be said of many … Read more
Day 1 Well, I have arrived at Camp Spearhead, Kuwait. I am now officially serving in Operation Enduring Freedom/Noble Eagle. The flight over was long, tiresome, and grueling. Glad it’s over. Now I only have to suffer through the two to four days of jet lag and then the 180 days until I see my … Read more
We arrived at the airfield at 0730 which, we were told, was when the aircraft was supposed to land. The aircraft touched down about 0810. A C-17 Globemaster is a big airplane. The aircraft taxied up to where we had our equipment position and we began loading. Or I should say, the equipment got loaded. … Read more
Well, managed to get everything done. Got everything packed, or nearly (I was missing my beautiful and talented wife every minute I was packing). I got the car returned. And I was even able to go out to dinner with several guys from the unit. We went to Fat City Steakhouse. It was very good. … Read more